“It’s like recreating a bad Christmas movie.”

– Justin Tuck on the Giants’ week of travel.

Off hand, I can think of two holiday movies that included people taking circuitous routes to reach a destination by a certain deadline: Home Alone and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

The latter, incidentally, is not a Christmas movie. Steve Martin’s character needs to make it home in time for Thanksgiving.

And both movies are excellent. I realize Home Alone is a bit cheesy, especially since we’ve all now seen it a billion times, but there are legitimate reasons it blew up when it came out. It’s eminently quotable and features some hilarious slapstick.

So while Justin Tuck is a good defensive end and reportedly a great teammate, he appears to have bad taste in movies, unless there is a movie with a similar theme that I am missing. A bad Christmas movie is Christmas with the Kranks.